by John Brooks | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Every year in early April Chepstow hosts a popular walking festival, and this year I led 16 visitors on a pilgrimage walk which started and finished on Devauden Village Green. We started at the John Wesley Memorial and visited one converted chapel and six fascinating...
by John Brooks | Nov 27, 2022 | events, heritage, pub, walking
If the Voilette Szabo trail in Herefordshire was a rainbow then they’d be three pots of gold at the end of it. The six-mile walk takes in the colours and shades of the Herefordshire countryside in all its glory. And the pots of gold? Well Golden Pot I is the most...
by John Brooks | Oct 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
For many people it is a dream to row, row, row their boat gently down the River Wye at Symonds Yat or slightly faster through the man-made grade 2 rapids as I first did as a schoolboy. Many of our guests merrily, merrily include the location for a visit while staying...
by John Brooks | Oct 9, 2021 | Brecon Beacons, dogs, Mountains, National Trust, Shiatsu, Uncategorized, walking
I have a tee shirt with the inscription “Up a mountain, down a beer” which, for me, describes a perfect day out but there are variations. Emma and Neil, who stayed in our Sugar Loaf cottage in early autumn, downed a Welsh whisky before going up the highest mountain in...
by John Brooks | Sep 22, 2021 | dogs, events, family, heritage, Sand and Sea, Uncategorized, walking
Black Rock picnic site on the banks of the Severn Estuary at Portskewett is a special place and I am indebted to our first European guests since Covid restrictions were lifted for reminding me just how special. Brecht and Stephanie arrived from Belgium, after all the...
